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  2. Qingming Festival - Wikipedia

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    This makes it the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, either 4, 5 or 6 April in a given year. [11] [12] [13] During Qingming, Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites and make ritual offerings to their ancestors. [8] Offerings would typically include traditional food dishes and the burning of joss sticks and ...

  3. Birkat Hachama - Wikipedia

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    The blessing is recited when the Sun completes its cycle every 28 years on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. Because the blessing needs to be said when the Sun is visible, the blessing is postponed to the following day, on Wednesday ...

  4. Blessing of the Fleet - Wikipedia

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    The annual Blessing of the Fleet & Seafood Festival in Mount Pleasant, SC pays tribute to local shrimping and fishing industry, offering a boat parade, live music, craft show and many free activities with the picturesque Ravenel Bridge and Charleston Harbor for a backdrop! The festival is held on the last Sunday in April every year.

  5. Your Weekly Horoscope: April 7 to April 13, 2024 - AOL

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    April 6, 2024 at 10:00 PM Weekly Horoscope April 7 to April 13, 2024 On Monday, April 8, the total solar eclipse in Aries aligns with Chiron and Mercury retrograde, plunging you into deep self ...

  6. Kirkin' o' the Tartan - Wikipedia

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    The service includes a blessing of family tartans, which are often carried in by a family representative. [2] The term kirk is the Scots word for 'church', and in this case refers to the blessing ("churching") of the tartans. [3] Today the Kirkin' o' the Tartan is celebrated throughout the United States and Canada by those of Scottish descent.

  7. Put Faith First in 2025 With These New Year Prayers and Blessings

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    Begin 2025 with faith and hope for the months ahead with the best New Year prayers and blessings. They're perfect for seeking solace and expressing gratitude. ... December 18, 2024 at 2:35 PM.

  8. O-mikuji - Wikipedia

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    Future small blessing (末小吉, sue-shō-kichi) Misfortune ( 凶 , kyō ) Other sequences may include additional degrees such as "middle blessing" ( 中吉 , chū-kichi ) , "great misfortune" ( 大凶 , dai-kyō ) , or "blessing [and] misfortune still undetermined" ( 吉凶未分 , kikkyō imada wakarazu , i.e. one's fortune could end up ...

  9. Omer offering - Wikipedia

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    The offering containing an omer-measure of barley, described as reishit ketzirchem ("the beginning of your harvest"). [3] Josephus describes the processing of the offering as follows: After parching and crushing the little sheaf of ears and purifying the barley for grinding, they bring to the altar an issaron for God, and, having flung a ...